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Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend (Language Quotes)
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language (Language Quotes)
When you’re around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you’d be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later (Language Quotes)
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language (Language Quotes)
I don’t feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don’t know (Language Quotes)
All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language (Language Quotes)
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it (Language Quotes)
I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner (Language Quotes)
Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other’s minds, this would be a horror show (Language Quotes)
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be (Language Quotes)
The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony (Language Quotes)
To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable (Language Quotes)
Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results (Language Quotes)
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity (Language Quotes)
In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer (Language Quotes)
How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population (Language Quotes)
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them (Language Quotes)
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? (Language Quotes)
The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning (Language Quotes)
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard (Language Quotes)
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone (Language Quotes)
He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed (Language Quotes)
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words (Language Quotes)
For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations (Language Quotes)
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists (Language Quotes)
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language (Language Quotes)
Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer’s claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling (Language Quotes)
Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what’s true for you about something, look to how you’re feeling about it (Language Quotes)
To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write (Language Quotes)
Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow (Language Quotes)